Pneumatic straw-stacker



(No Model.)

F. STANLEY. PNEUMATIC STRAW STAGKER.

No. 536,793. Patented Apr. 2, 1895.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

FRANK STANLEY, OF LIBERTY, HENRY COUNTY, INDIANA.

PNEUMATIC STRAW-STACKER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 536,793, dated April 2, 1895. Application filed J'anuary 10,1895. Serial No. 534,469. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK STANLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing in Liberty township, in the county of Henry and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pneumatic Straw- Stackers, of which the following is a specilication. v

My present invention consists in certain improvements upon that shown and described in my application, Serial No. 526,074., filed October 16, 1894, whereby a construction is secured in which the frame carrying the telescopic trunk or chute shall not at any time project beyond the point of said trunk or chute itself. This removes an objection to my former construction in cases where the machine is used in a barn or other limited space, where, frequently with the longrigid and non-adjustable frame, it was inconvenient or impracticable to handle the machine to advantage.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which are made a part hereof, and on which similar letters of reference indicate similar parts. Figure 1 is a top or plan view of a pneumatic straw stacking attachment for thrashing machines embodying my present invention; Fig. 2, a side elevation of thesame, showing it mounted on a fragment of the thrashing machine and illustrating the relation of the parts when the straw stacker is swung around over the top of the same; Fig. 3, a transverse sectional view as seen when looking in the di-,

rection indicated by the arrows from the'dotted line 3 3 in Fig.2, and Fig. 4 a detail sectional view on the dotted line 4 4 in Fig. 2.

In said drawings, (as in those of my above mentioned application,) the portions marked A represent the thrashing machine or separator; B, the stump of the straw stacker, and B B the sections of the telescopic trunk or chute thereof; 0, a Windlass whereby the stacker is raised and lowered; D D the sections of the extensible frame forming a support or carrier for the trunk or chute; E, a rope by which the extension and withdrawal of the adjustable section or sections of the trunk or chute can be effected, and F a hood on the rear end of the trunk or chute.

The ropes,gears and attachments being similar, except as noted, to those in my aforementioned application, they will not be generally lettered or particularly described herein.

The arch-bar D is at the outer end of the rigid part D instead of at the extreme end of the frame, and the stay d is connected thereto instead of to separate ears, as in said former application.

Substantially the only difference, as above indicated, between the construction of this my present application and of the application above referred to consists in the construction of the supporting frame formed in this case of the two sections D and D and in the changed mounting of the telescopic sections of the trunk or chute thereon. In said application said frame D was a rigid structure from endto end. It is now composed of the two sections D and D the section D being provided with a slide or way in which the section D is mounted, and the section B of the trunk or chute is rigidly secured to the section D of the track by means of the supports b attached to said parts, as shown most plainly in Fig. 3. The consequence is that when the section B of the trunk or chute is moved,

by means of the rope E and its Windlass or otherwise, the section D of the track is also moved; and said track section being firmly mounted in the ways in the track section D, this supports the trunk sections substantially as well asthough said track were integral or rigid; while, the track being always somewhat shorter than the trunk or chute, the machine can be used in any place where-the shortest length of trunk or chute can be.

Having thus fully described my said invention, what I claim as new,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, in a pneumatic straw stacker, of a sectional telescopic trunk or chute, and a sectional telescopic track, the slidable section of the track supporting the slidable section of the trunk or chute, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, in a pneumatic straw stacker, of the trunk or chute composed of the non-slidable section B and the slidable section 13*, the track for supporting the same composed of a non-slidable sectionD and the hand and seal slidablc section D said trunk section B beat New Castle, Indiana, this ing mounted on said track section D and 5th day of January, A. D. 1895.

means for operating said slidable sections of FRANK STANLEY the trunk and the track, substantially as Witnesses: shownand described. PERRY FRAIZER,

S. H. BROWN.

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